11th NYFCO Awards

December 11, 2011

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Best Film:
The Artist

The 11th

New York Film Critics Online The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) is an organization founded by Harvey Karten in 2000 composed of Internet film critics based in New York City. The group meets once a year, in December, for voting on its annual NYFCO Awards. 2001 Various ...

Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in

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, were given on 11 December 2011.

Winners

*Best Actor: ** Michael Shannon - '' Take Shelter'' *Best Actress: ** Meryl Streep - '' The Iron Lady'' *Best Animated Film: **'' The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn'' *Best Cast: **''

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'' *Best Cinematography: **'' The Tree of Life'' - Emmanuel Lubezki *Best Debut Director: **

Joe Cornish Joseph Murray Cornish (born 20 December 1968) is an English comedian and filmmaker. With his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, he forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe. In 2011, Cornish released his directorial debut ''Attack the Block''. He ...

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'' *Best Director: **

Michel Hazanavicius Michel Hazanavicius ( lt, Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, '' The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Aw ...

- '' The Artist'' *Best Documentary Film: **''

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'' *Best Film: **'' The Artist'' *Best Film Music or Score: **'' The Artist'' - Ludovic Bource *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' A Separation'' • Iran *Best Screenplay: **'' The Descendants - '' Nat Faxon, Jim Rash and

Alexander Payne Constantine Alexander Payne (; born February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the films ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Election'' (1999), ''About Schmidt'' (2002), ''Sideways'' (2004), ''The Desc ...

*Best Supporting Actor: **

Albert Brooks Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's '' Broadcast News'' and was widely praised for his performance as a ...

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'' *Best Supporting Actress: ** Melissa McCarthy - ''

'' *Breakthrough Performer: **

Jessica Chastain Jessica Michelle Chastain (born March 24, 1977) is an American actress and producer. Known for primarily starring in films with feminist themes, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. ''Time'' ...

- '' The Tree of Life'', '' The Help'', '' The Debt'', '' Take Shelter'', ''

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'' and '' Coriolanus''

Top Pictures of 2011

* '' The Artist'' * '' The Descendants'' * ''

'' * '' The Help'' * ''

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'' * '' Melancholia'' * '' Midnight in Paris'' * '' Take Shelter'' * '' The Tree of Life'' * '' War Horse''

References

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